Electra version 1.0.1, complete with Cydia as part of the payload is here, but that doesn’t mean that everything is plain sailing. As we should all know by now, there are always going to be teething problems with the jailbreak as well as individual components contained within.

If, in your excitement, you have launched Cydia, received a selection of available updates, one of which is for APT, and are now receiving error messages such as “Method https has died expectedly!” whenever you launch Cydia, then you are not alone.

The problem has occurred after Saurik pushed an update for APT, breaking CoolStar’s Electra 1.0.1 Cydia fork for iOS 11 in the process. While the error may seem troublesome at first but rest assured that it can be solved with just a small amount of tinkering on the device. With that said, just because you can tinker, doesn’t mean that you should, so make sure you have the requisite knowledge and skills before you start modifying and copying files.

Step 1: First and foremost, you are going to need to be in possession of a relevant APT file compatible with Electra’s fork of Cydia that you need to copy across to your device using SSH. You can grab the required file from here.

Step 2: Now use a program like Cyberduck (Mac) or WinSCP (Windows) on your computer to SSH this file over to your device and put it into a directory or location that you will remember, such as /private/var/mobile/Documents.

Step 3: SSH into your device again by ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx command, this time using a program like Terminal, OpenSSH or PuTTy (we recommend Terminal). Navigate to the directory where you placed the downloaded .deb file. Make sure that it is your active directory. Run the following command: dpkg -i apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb

Once that command has been successfully executed you should notice that the issue is fixed and Cydia should be working again.

One thing to remember is that the next time you launch Cydia, and the packages refresh and updates are showing, do not go through the process of upgrading APT again as this will once again cause you to have the same issue and receive the same error message, which means that you’ll have to redo the above process once again to fix the problem. It’s also worth noting that you may receive a warning advising that it is “unable to delete old directory.” if you tell Cydia to ignore this update. This error is safe to ignore and won’t cause any issues.

Also, while you are at it, you can also make Cydia ignore just this particular APT update by Saurik that breaks Electra the next time you refresh sources. To do this, search for and then select the package APT 0.7 Strict (lib) in Cydia, select Change Package Settings and then turn the toggle for Ignore Updates to ON position.

Update x1: Electra 1.0.2 has now been released to fix APT and to.panga issues.

please, make a youtube video. of course, nobody knows how to fix that! LOL

iPhone5SF

YouTube should have two videos using cyberduck but I don’t know I can post here or not. Please search it.

Erick Noriega Hortigüela

This is how I did it.
1.- Go to settings -> wifi -> click on the information button on the left of the network that you’re connected -> copy the ip address
2.- With Cyberduck or winscp you have to connect via sftp
3.- In the address field put the ip address from step 1, user name is root and password is alpine. Click connect.
4.- Paste the apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb in there
5.- Connect to ssh with this command ‘ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx‘ where the x’s is the ip address from step 1.
6.- Username is root and password alpine.
7.-Navigate to where you put the ‘apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb’ file using ‘cd path/to/file’, you can use ‘ls’ command to see the files in the directory you’re in.
8.-run ‘dpkg -i apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb’

Sorry if my english is bad :/

Rnie Dafuq

dit it with cyberduck, no problem and easy

Jesse James

Saurik’s aliitle out of practice he had to get a real job when jailbreaking was on a hiatus.

Renato Martins

i got it..
download WinSCP – open it.. change the protocol to SCP, put the IP of your phone in HOST, user: root, password: alpine. once you are in, look for /private/var/mobile/Documents and drag that file apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm that you downloaded. then download Putty Terminal.. once again put you IP iphone in Host, dont change nothing else and click Open, type: root (enter) password: alpine (enter), then type: cd /private/var/mobile/Documents (with CAPITAL “D”), enter.. then type: dpkg -i apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb (enter…) then exit. ITS DONE.

Thanks for your post. I followed you instructions to the letter ie copy/pasting entries but I am getting an error message in Putty which says:
“error: cannot scan updates directory ‘/var/lib/dpkg/updates/’
: No such file or directory”

Do you have any idea why this is happening and how to fix? Thank you

Eefje

Ok, seriously new to the ssh thing and have been fooling around for an hour with Putty. To than realize, all can be be done with Winscp alone.

Step 1: In Winscp place the apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb file in /private/var/mobile/Documents
Step 2: In Winscp (still in the folder /private/var/mobile/Documents) press ctrl T to open the terminal.
In the -enter command- field you copy the command: dpkg -i apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb and press -Execute-…DONE 😀

hope it helps

John

The link is Dead now. Does anyone know where to get this APT file somewhere else?

if it try to connect from SFTP it wont connect only SCP will let me connect

John

Sending you an email bud. Thanks!! Update: SENT!

Gordon Smith

Thanks Renato, I followed your instructions again and it all went well and without errors. I also installed the new Electra jailbreak and as you said it seems to have fixed Cydia. So I can sleep tonight!!

drake

i sent an emial to you i need the file as well. This error stuff is a lot of work! thanks man

drake

sucks its dead, ive been sitting here tryign to figure why this stuff wont work but its cause the file is dead

drake

WOWWWWW THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH SO MUCH EASIER

YungSwaggKiid

Anyone Find Any Luck ? All Links Seem To Be Dead

EverymanNoone

don’t do this. Just use the updated version of Electra 1.0.2

Black_Eagle03

thanks “Eefje”
worked for me
this is the deb.file: dpkg -i apt7-lib_0.7.25.3-15_iphoneos-arm.deb and press -Execute-.